Chabraque Productions (Clementine Dabadie, Hervé Fihey) is developing a new 6 x 52' series titled Nouvelle Vague (New Wave : French cinema movement; translator's note), the company said Friday, May 12 in a statement. Baya Kasmi and Michel Leclerc (Youssef Salem a du succès, Le Nom des gens) are the authors of the series bible, it is specified.
The pitch: François, Jean-Luc, Alain, Agnès, Claude and the others… Are the directors of the Nouvelle Vague cinema gods or a bunch of brats? François Truffaut tells us about their friendship, their debates, their films, their estrangements and their disappointments: 10 young people barely out of childhood but ready to draw, to film and for a revolution. But in film as in life, the bomb was hidden under the table and threatened to explode...